Paul Dans

Community banks are the last place in America where a man in a short-sleeve dress shirt can approve a $400,000 loan based on the fact that he went to high school with your dad. There are 4,100 of them left. There were 14,000 in 1984. Every time one gets acquired, a teller named Brenda learns a new software system and a small town loses the only institution that would lend against a combine. The acquirer always says nothing will change. Brenda is gone in eighteen months. The lobby cookies go next. Then the branch closes. Then the building becomes a vape shop. This is not a financial trend. This is the slow administrative murder of the only version of capitalism that ever knew your name.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton is SURGING in the Senate runoff against John Cornyn, despite the establishment dumping another $30-50 MILLION to protect a 24-year incumbent who has ZERO major accomplishments. This is on top of the $100 million spent earlier. Imagine how useful $150 million could be in defeating Democrats! Instead it was spent against a conservative Republican in a red state. Shameful. Paxton: "Incumbency is more important than the majority to them." Cornyn spent $100 MILLION in the primary just to squeak out a 42-41 win while Paxton spent only $5.8 million. Now they're burning even more cash that could have gone to flipping seats in North Carolina, Michigan, or Maine. This is the definition of establishment vs grassroots.